Intro :
T ime present and time past
are both perhaps present in time future
and ti me future contained in time past.
I f all time is eternally present
all time is unredeemable.
What might have b een is an abstraction
remaining a perpetual possibility.
O nly in a world of speculation
what might have been and what has been.
Point to one end which is a lways present
footfalls echo in the memory.
Down the pa ssage which we did not take
towards the door we never opened
into the rose garden.